To explain further, the first recordings the band did, were a set of demos at DeLane Lea studios, Wembley. The studios agreed to let Queen use their facilities in exchange for the band helping them to acoustically test the studios for them.

These demos were then used to try and get the band a recording deal with potential labels.

Eventually, Queen signed to a production company called Trident, who then got the band to record in their studios in St Anne's Court in Soho, London, pending a record deal that they would sort out (eventually with EMI for most of the world, and Elemtra for the USA, Canada, Australsia and Japan).

Try as they may, in the case of The Night Comes Down, the band came to the conclusion that they couldn't improve on the original demo recording of the song, so that version was included on the first album, the becoming the earliest Queen recording commercially available, until the release of the whole set of DeLane Lea demos, on the bonus CD included on the 2011 remaster edition of Queen.

What is left of your dream?Just the words on your stone.A man who learnt how to teach,But forgot how to learn.

I think the lyrics are about how things are so distinctive when you are young. You are happy, enjoying life (high and dazzling). Things are simple and logic. The colours are black and white (bad or good).. easy to separate. You hold the World inside you. You think you have control. When you are young it is easy to trust in people (laugh with everyone). But as you grow older things that were so distinctive, turn out to be more unclear, grey instead of black and white. It is sort of like the more you learn, the more you realize that the world is not so obvious or easy to understand. The night comes down, and it is dark again, a symbolic picture of how things in colours turn grey at night; you get confused or afraid of losing control in the dark; things in life are not so easy to understand anymore. The colours are grey. You get afraid of losing your way.

You really think they like to rock in space? Well, I don't know. What do you know?

The__KingOfRhye wrote:What would be interesting to hear is the rejected version of that...the one that they didn't feel was an improvement.

There may be no rejected version of that. It's likely that they added the 1971 version because it was the only one they ever recorded. They had time to re-record the other four (and then re-re-record KYA a month or so before its release as single) but perhaps not that one.

I thought it was in an interview, where they said that they couldn't better the DeLane Lea version, of course that's assuming they even tried, but given those words, it's a fair assumption that they had a go.

What is left of your dream?Just the words on your stone.A man who learnt how to teach,But forgot how to learn.